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20/09/20
REBIRTH!
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Latest Prose [ more >> ]
A Sinking Ship
"You can't be serious?" The captain's face was flushed with fury. "It's an expedient manoeuvre but it could work. We've ...
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/ richard / Action adventure, Flash Fiction, Flash Fiction / 1 Comment on A Sinking Ship / 336 words / NEW! /
I Don’t Much Like The Rain
This is a rewrite of something I first penned in 2004. Mind you, the core of it might be the ...
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Fred’s Lockdown
Here's another take on the lockdown. Fred is a fictitious character, but then again he could be real ? 🤔 ...
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Setting Off For The Soviet Union in 1970
This is the beginning of a very belated diary. I'd been invited many years ago to stay with friends in ...
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She never ceases to surprise me
In the midst of all this seriousness, how about a flash that changes the mood a little! ...
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Inner Ramblings
So, I'm new to this and not really sure how it works but I just wanted somewhere to share some ...
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ONE YEAR, ONE WEEK, A DAY, AN HOUR
The loss of my beloved pet, Ludo, is devastatingly painful, but everything is subjective isn't it? ...
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/ griffonner / bereavement, Covid19, Italy, Journal, loss, Self isolation / 11 Comments on ONE YEAR, ONE WEEK, A DAY, AN HOUR / 1158 words / /
Latest Poetry [ more >> ]
Complacence
At this juncture of unprecedented uncertainties we need bold positive mindset, spend quantifiable time for self. Self-care & satisfaction at ...
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tea with a friend
come visit soon we will drink green tea from translucent china no need to talk much we’ll show photos of ...
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torch song
torch song when winter comes and living stutters light a guiding lamp and I will find my way age or ...
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all flesh is as grass
the corduroy grey resting in a chair beside the pond sighed pointing to a clump wilting in baked earth ...
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dreamin’ of better days
we’ll go to Whitby, rent a sea-view fisherman’s cottage stay for the weekend, take a taxi up to the Abbey ...
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Chet drops by the jazz café Alto
surprise guest at the Alto café Amsterdam 88 early May a halo of blue gingham tables loaded with Amstel and ...
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